Holocaust and Rescue: Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945 - Softcover

Shatzkes, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853035504 ISBN 13: 9780853035503

Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This is a penetrating and balanced analysis of the options facing British Jews as they wrested with the problems of rescuing the victims of Nazi discrimination. Alive to political realities, and mercifully unpolemical, Shatzkes exposes the cruel dilemmas that made rescue increasingly difficult. The result is an impressive reworking of a contentious story, told here with compassion and understanding. RICHARD OVERY, Professor of History, King's College London

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Review:

'Dr Shatzkes has written a most important book on what for the Jewish communities in Britain has been one of the most tragic and disturbing passages in its history.' - Professor D.Cameron Watt
'This is a well-researched and thorough study...Shatzkes criticises historians who present a Jewish leadership concerned to ingratiate itself with the higher social order, and therefore unable to represent its constituents. She argues that the Board's tactics may have been flawed, but its motivation was not.' - Electronic Telegraph

About the Author:

PAMELA SHATZKES is a Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. She is author of a study of the Jews who found refuge in Japan during the war, Kobe, A Japanese Haven for Jewish Refugees, 1940-1941, which was awarded the LSE prize for English prose and the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0853035504
• ISBN 13: 9780853035503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322